Award Application—Written Explanation Ideas

The following questions will help you get the creative juices flowing. Don’t worry about answering all (or any) of these questions. They are just food for thought.

How does your company educate employees to be better health consumers of the company medical plan?

What wellness services does your company offer? What makes your wellness program stand out?

How do you know your wellness programs are “working”?

When creating your employee wellness program, or when making adjustments to it, who is in the room for those conversations?

How are you using data to better understand the reality of company employees from a clinical, cost, and/or overall health standpoint?

What employee health solutions have you developed as a result of looking at data?

What employee health solutions have you jettisoned as a result of looking at data?

What programs are you keeping because while the utilization is poor, “they don’t cost that much”?

What would you do differently when selecting company employee health programs if it was your own money on the line? In other words, if your paycheck was at risk if the program didn’t work or wasn’t embraced by employees, what would you change in the analysis process before signing off on those programs?

Do you have multiple people in your company who handle wellness, employee benefits, the medical/insurance plan, and risk management/workers’ comp/safety? Or are you the Lone Ranger?

If you do have multiple people in the areas in #10, do they ever meet as a group? If so, how often?

Without looking it up, could your wellness expert name your company’s workers’ compensation carrier? Could they explain why they should care?

Most companies seem to pretty much do what everyone else is doing. Do you have any examples of where your company bucked that trend, didn’t go with the next shiny object, and set out on its own path within your employee health strategy? How’s that going?

Is the internal expertise at your disposal to help discuss potential employee health strategies?

Have you sought external expertise from someone with experience in all “4 Areas of Expertise” (medical plan, employee benefits, wellness, and workers comp/safety/risk management)?

How are employee health vendor reports assessed for accuracy and reliability?